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Stories to be read or told to the children-Continued.

The Night Before Christmas, Moore.

A Lesson of Mercy, Alice Cary.

I Like Little Pussy, Jane Taylor.

Three Bugs in a Basket, Alice Cary. Fables:

Hare and the Tortoise.

The Lion and the Mouse.

Country Mouse and City Mouse.

Dog and His Shadow.

Lark and the Farmer.

Wolf, Wolf, in Animal Stories.
Clytie.

Little Miss Apple.

Three Bears.

Mother Goose rhymes:

Baa Baa Black Sheep!

Little Bo-Peep.

Little Jack Horner.

Humpty Dumpty.

Mistress Mary.

Little Boy Blue.

This Little Pig Went to Market.

Dickery, Dickery, Dock.

I Have a Little Sister.

Peter Piper.

Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater.

Little Nancy Etticoat.

Jack Be Nimble.

Old Mother Hubbard.

Hi Diddle Diddle.

The House that Jack Built.

Sing a Song of Sixpence.

There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe.

In explanation of holidays:

Story of First Thanksgiving.

Story of the Christ Child.

Fairy New Year's Gift, in Child World.

Saint Valentine's Birthday, Plan Book.

Washington's Birthday.

Stories of the Flag, from Child Garden.

Poems to be memorized:

The Rain, Stevenson.

Time to Rise.

The Swing.

The Cow.

Little Birdie, Tennyson.

At Eastertime.

Songs of the Tree Top and Meadow, Mother Goose Rhymes.

Poems:

SECOND GRADE.

The Rock a By Lady, Field.

Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Field.

Little Boy Blue, Field.

The Night Wind, Field.

Windy Nights, Stevenson.

The Land of Story Books, Stevenson.

Bed in Summer, Stevenson.

The Land of Counterpane, Stevenson.
September, Helen Hunt Jackson.

October, Helen Hunt Jackson.

How the Leaves Came Down, Susan Coolidge.

All Things Bright and Beautiful, Miss C. F. Alexander.

The Sugar Plum Tree, Field.

The Cooky Moon, Edmund Vance Cook.

The Rainbow Fairies, Lizzie M. Hadley.

Who Stole the Bird's Nest? Lydia Maria Child.

The Swing, Stevenson.

My Shadow, Stevenson.

Don't Kill the Birds, Daniel A. Colesworthy.

Thanksgiving Day, Lydia Maria Child.

If I Knew, Maud Wyman.

Song of the Wind, Helen M. Beckwith.

We Thank Thee, Margaret Sangster.

God Takes Care, Anon.

The Two Squirrels, Anon.

The Song of the Thrush, Lucy Larcom.

The Bluebird, Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller.

All Happy in Spring, Anon.

Who Likes the Rain? Anon.

A Busy Day, Anon.

THIRD GRADE.

Poems:

The Wind, Stevenson.

A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement C. Moore.
Hiawatha's Friends, Longfellow.

Seed, in McMurry & Cook's Song of Tree Top.
Good-Night, Victor Hugo.

The Wonderful World, William Brighty Rands.

Sweet and Low, Tennyson.

Daisies, Sherman.

Marjorie's Almanac, Thomas Bailey Aldrich.

America.

Hiawatha's Childhood, Longfellow.

Hiawatha's Sailing, Longfellow.

Seven Times One, Jean Ingelow.

Four Leaf Clover, Mrs. Ella Higginson.

The Year's at the Spring, from "Pippa Passes," Browning.

Pied Piper of Hamelin, Browning.

I Live for Those Who Love Me, G. Linnalus Banks.

The Brown Thrush, Lucy Larcom.

Wishing, William Allingham.

Poems:

FOURTH GRADE.

The Gladness of Nature, Bryant.

The Night Wind, Field.

The Mountain and the Squirrel, Emerson.

The Village Blacksmith, Longfellow.

A Fable, Emerson.

The Barefoot Boy, Whittier.

The Fountain, Lowell.

September, Helen Hunt Jackson.

June Days (part in Language through Nature, Literature and Art),

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Poems:

SIXTH GRADE.

Selections from Snowbound, Whittier.

It's Not Raining Rain to Me, Robert Loveman.

St. Christopher, Howells.

The Creation of the Birds.

The Builders, Longfellow.

One by One, Adelaide Proctor.

The Blue and the Gray, F. M. Finch.

The White-footed Deer, Bryant.

Lead Kindly Light, Newman.
Order for a Picture, Alice Cary.
Daffodils, Wordsworth.

The Flag Goes By, Bennett.
Paul Revere's Ride, Longfellow.

A Man's A Man, for a' That, Burns.
Abou Ben Adhem, Leigh Hunt.
Sheridan's Ride, T. Buchanan Read.
The First Snowfall, Lowell.
Nobility, Alice Cary.

Song of Marion's Men, Bryant.

Proverbs:

A stitch in time saves nine.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Where there is a will there is a way.

If a man cheats me once, shame on him; if he cheats me twice, shame

on me.

Follow the river and you will be to the sea.

All that glitters is not gold.

Make hay while the sun shines.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

Practice makes perfect.

You can not eat your cake and keep it.

Waste not, want not.

You must run to win the race.

The more haste the less speed.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

Cut your coat according to your cloth.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Think before you speak.

Look before you leap.

Never put off until tomorrow what can be done to-day.
Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.

Take things always by the smooth handle.

When angry count 10 before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.

MEMORY GEMS.

The following is only a suggestive list of memory gems. The list is given for two reasons: (1) It may provide occasional material of this nature for those who may not have it at hand, or (2) it may stimulate thought along parallel lines and lead to the use of even better illustrative material.

It is a very good thing to have the child regularly acquire memory gems, thus, perhaps unconsciously, acquiring inspiration, ideals, and ideas that may go with him through his entire lifetime thereafter. Heroism is simple, and yet it is rare. Every one who does the best he can is a hero.-Josh Billings.

He who has learned to obey will know how to command.-Solon.

The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hillside's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven-

All's well with the world.

-Robert Browning.

Boughs are daily rifled

By the gusty thieves,
And the book of Nature

Getteth short of leaves.

-Thomas Hood.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant

When life flows along like a song,

But the man worth while is the man who will smile

When everything goes dead wrong.

-Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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There is the national flag! He must be cold indeed who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country *. White is for purity, red for valor, blue for justice, and all together-bunting, stripes, stars, and colors blazing in the sky-make the flag of our country to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.-Charles Sumner.

If I were a cobbler, I would make it my pride

The best of all cobblers to be;

If I were a tinker, no tinker besides
Should mend an old kettle like me.

If "ifs" and "ands"

Were old tin cans

They'd be of no use to tinkers.

Work for some good, be it ever so slowly;
Cherish some flower, be it ever so lowly;
Labor, all labor, is noble and holy.

-Mrs. F. S. Osgood.

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